Marchok (3-2) fired a four-hitter and gave up only one run in Saturday's opening game against the Tigers in Princeton, N.J.
Since a rocky outing against Navy two weeks ago, the left-hander has seen his ERA drop from 6.57 to 3.42 after throwing complete game victories against Army last weekend and Princeton Saturday.
Trailing 1-0 in the second inning, Harvard evened the score when Dave Jamieson drew a bases-loaded walk, scoring Dan McConaghy. DePalo picked up the game-winner in the third inning with an RBI single, which scored Tom Konjoyan.
Pakalnis blasted his second homer of the season in the sixth inning, driving a pitch from Princeton loser Steve Holland (4-4) 400 feet over the left-centerfield wall.
Harvard 4, Princeton 2
Bob Baxter, Harvard's starter in the nightcap, survived threats in the sixth and seventh innings to pick up his fifth win in as many decisions.
The freshman left-hander struck out eightTigers, walked none, and gave up 10 hits en routeto the victory. Entering the game with no runsallowed in 26-1/3 innings, Baxter's ERA jumpedfrom 0.00 to 0.54.
A double by Pakalnis in the first and asacrifice fly (by Konjoyan), a suicide squeezebunt (by Pat Sullivan), and an error in the sixthinning accounted for Harvard's four runs.
The Tigers loaded the bases in the sixth, asTodd Tuckner and Sean Welsh singled and Pakalnismuffed Brandon Motler's grounder. But Baxterescaped the jam by getting Tony Moore to groundinto a 6-4-3 double play.
In the seventh inning, the Tigers tallied twicebefore Welsh flew out to end the game with tworunners on base.
THE NOTEBOOK: Cornell drops to 4-10 inleague action, and Princeton, after falling toboth Harvard and Dartmouth, finishes the season at6-11-1 in the EIBL.